Bystrowianidae
Bystrowianidae is a family of chroniosuchian tetrapods from the Permian and Triassic periods.

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChroniosuchiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 237 Mya.
27 occurrences of Bystrowianidae on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
27 occurrences- Permian30%
- Early Triassic56%
- Middle Triassic15%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
16 formations
- Vokhminskaya Formation3
- Shangshihezi Formation3
- Erfurt Formation · Keuper Group2
- Guodikeng Formation2
- Petropavlovka Formation1
- Lipovskaya Formation1
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The named rock units Bystrowianidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bystrowianidae and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Bystrowianidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Dromotectum spinosum4 sites
- Axitectum vjushkovi3 sites
- Batrachosuchoides3 sites
- Benthosuchus3 sites
- Chasmatosuchus3 sites
- Crocopoda3 sites
- Saurichthys3 sites
- Actinistia2 sites
- Archosaurus rossicus2 sites
- Batrachotomus kupferzellensis2 sites
- Benthosuchus sushkini2 sites
- Bystrowiana2 sites
- Bystrowiella schumanni2 sites
- Callistomordax kugleri2 sites
- Ceratodus jechartiensis2 sites
- Chasmatosuchus rossicus2 sites
- Darwinula2 sites
- Dicynodontidae2 sites
- Dvinosaurus egregius2 sites
- Gerdalia2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Jaxtasuchus salomoni2 sites
- Lissodus2 sites
- Mastodonsaurus giganteus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Bystrowianidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
14 references- Triassic chroniosuchians (Amphibia, Anthracosauromorpha) and the evolution of trunk dermal scutes in bystrowianids6
- Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia3
- Relict anthracosaurs in the early Mesozoic of Eastern Europe3
- New chroniosuchian materials from Xinjiang, China2
- The Jiyuan tetrapod fauna of the Upper Permian of China—2. stratigraphy, taxonomical review, and correlation2
- New Bystrowianid Chroniosuchians (Amphibia, Anthracosauromorpha) from the Triassic of Russia and Diversification of Bystrowianidae2
- A relict basal tetrapod from Germany: first evidence of a Triassic chroniosuchian outside Russia2
- A new bystrowianid from the upper Permian of Germany: first record of a Permian chroniosuchian (Tetrapoda) outside Russia and China1
- First record of bystrowianid chroniosuchians (Amphibia: Anthracomorpha) from the Middle Permian of China1
- Therocephalian (Therapsida) and chroniosuchian (Reptiliomorpha) from the Permo-Triassic transitional Guodikeng Formation of the Dalongkou Section, Jimsar, Xinjiang, China1
- New Data on Trematosauroid Labyrinthodonts of Eastern Europe: 3. Qantas samarensis gen. et sp. nov.1
- Permian and Triassic therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe1
Each of the 27 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 2 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bystrowianidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dmitry Bogdanov
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bystrowianidae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChroniosuchia through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vjushkov 1957